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A new computer program lets your brain turn fMRI machines into musical instruments by assigning notes to active regions of your cortex. The results may cause people to drive themselves crazy just to stay on the cutting edge of electronica.
Philosopher Dan Lloyd uses functional MRIs — which track changes in brain activity by lighting up in different colors and intensities as the brain processes information — to create music, by assigning each area of the brain a note and each level of intensity a volume. A computer does the rest, analyzing the movements of the functional MRIs and creating musical pieces that correspond to the changes.
In the course of his work, Lloyd discovered that scans of patients with dementia and schizophrenia make audibly different music than those of people with normal brains: people with dementia have more erratic rhythms and less bright notes, while people with schizophrenia have more complex patterns in the music created by their brains.
Originally posted by IntastellaBurst
... From what i have seen of Schizophrenics, .... I dont think they are ill at all. It seems they are perceiving reality in a different way, .... almost as if their mind has become unhinged.
.... perhaps even thinking multi-dimensionaly, ..... We can see how this type of thought process doesnt translate well into a 3 dimensional universe.
... However this is just speculation, ... I'd really like to sit down with a few Schizophrenics and pick their brains.
Originally posted by IntastellaBurst
... From what i have seen of Schizophrenics, .... I dont think they are ill at all. It seems they are perceiving reality in a different way, .... almost as if their mind has become unhinged.
.... perhaps even thinking multi-dimensionaly, ..... We can see how this type of thought process doesnt translate well into a 3 dimensional universe.
... However this is just speculation, ... I'd really like to sit down with a few Schizophrenics and pick their brains.
Originally posted by IntastellaBurst
... From what i have seen of Schizophrenics, .... I dont think they are ill at all. It seems they are perceiving reality in a different way, .... almost as if their mind has become unhinged.
.... perhaps even thinking multi-dimensionaly, ..... We can see how this type of thought process doesnt translate well into a 3 dimensional universe.
... However this is just speculation, ... I'd really like to sit down with a few Schizophrenics and pick their brains.